WatchOS4 totally ruined the Watch for me !! what the hell apple !!

Your still able to initiate Siri on the Apple Watch and have it play songs on the iPhone. I was able to ask Siri to play a song from my Apple Watch and it played through my iPhone.

 

I didn't think watchOS 4 was out yet. Am I wrong? Maybe just for developers??

 

I understand what you mean, but I think this change reflects the Cellular Apple Watch.

It was kind of awesome to view your library on the Apple Watch, but as long as to initiate Siri from the Apple Watch and it plays through the iPhone.. I’m fine with that.

Now if I connect my Bluetooth headphones to my Apple Watch, I’ll be able to access music that I synced to the Apple Watch and do whatever activities I want without worrying about my iPhone.

I kind of think that’s the motive by Apple... I’m sure not planning on getting the Cellular Apple Watch.

 

My biggest problem with Music on Apple Watch is the lack of an equaliser, music from the watch sounds flat.

 

Is this for real? I'm gonna be disappointed if so. I liked being able to toggle the 'source' to be Watch or Phone and control playback of my entire iPhone music library from my watch. I use that far more often than actually streaming music directly from the watch. If that feature is gone now.. what a regression

 

Are you sure they haven’t just moved the functionality? Is it maybe only available in force touch menu now?

 

Beta isn't a GM, then

 

WTF? Tell me this ain't true...

 

it's the GM. the same version that will be released to the public next week. Apple removed the ability to view ones iPhone music library on the Watch in OS 4. That's fact, it's been consistent during the ENTIRE beta process and still is also present in the GM build. Apple has also confirmed that this was intentional.

 

Feel free to report the post, but a golden master build isn’t considered to be a beta build, just delivered in the beta channel.

To answer the topic, I can view my library on my Apple Watch, and I do not have my music stored on my watch.

What Apple has been doing and it has made it abundantly clear is that the watch should be separate from the phone.

 

Well you're the only person ever who can do that on watchOS 4. Good job getting the special release that still has that feature. The rest of us will lament our loss.

 

I can understand how frustrating losing this is. The best I feel that we can do is send your feedback to Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html.

 

This is the single worst change in my view. I don’t use my watch for music but it was good to use it as a remote control. I had hoped it would return with every beta, but alas it’s not in the GM

 

Hang on, I use my watch to select music on my phone to stream to my AirPods. Are you saying that functionality is gone and i cant use my watch to control music on my iPhone?
Are you on the GM versions of WatchOS4 and iOS11?

 

Will I be able to stream Pandora without my phone?

 

Its not much compensation but if you are going LTE with AW3 and have iTunes match then

"Finally, Apple confirmed to AppleInsider that Apple Watch Series 3 is capable of streaming music from a user's iCloud Music Library using iTunes Match, meaning users are not forced into an Apple Music subscription. Of course, users can also load up tunes by syncing with their iPhone, as with past Watch models."

 

Can we get a few more beta users to confirm and clarify this? It seems OP is saying essentially that Watch can no longer be used as a remote to control music playback from the iPhone? That makes no sense at all.

If correct, this is huge.

 

God that sucks. Does WatchOS4 and the new 16gb AW3 still have a 2gb limit for storing music on the watch?

 

You can access Now Playing on your iPhone via the Now Playing complication.

Not the same i know as you can't choose music as such, but at least there's an easy way to control music on your phone via the watch after you've selected your playlist or album.


It's definitely a step backwards having separate ways to access music on your phone and watch.